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Great classical music for your morning

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

1000 Playlist starter 鈥 listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1030 Song of the Day 鈥 harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1100 Playlist reveal 鈥 a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1130 Slow Moment 鈥 time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

1230 Album of the Week

3 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Tue 21 May 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Franz Schubert

    Heidenroslein

    Performer: Geoffrey Parsons. Singer: Barbara Bonney.
    • TELDEC.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 1 in D major (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Organ Sonata in E minor, BWV.528 (2nd mvt)

    Music Arranger: August Stradal. Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.
    • DG.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto No 3 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Julia Fischer. Orchestra: Nederlands Kamerorkest. Conductor: Yakov Kreizberg.
    • Mozart: Violin Concertos 3, 4, Adagio & Rondo.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 2.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no.4 in F minor Op.36 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • ONYX.
  • Benjamin Britten

    To Daffodils (5 Flower Songs)

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • HYPERION.
  • Sonny Kompanek

    Killer Tango

    Performer: Canadian Brass.
    • OPENING DAY.
  • Judith Weir

    The Welcome arrival of rain for orchestra

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • NMC.
  • Trad.

    Calusari no.1

    Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Performer: Emilia Kopatchinskaja. Performer: Viktor Kopatchinsky. Performer: Martin Gjakonovski.
    • Naive.
  • Edward Elgar

    Pomp and Circumstance March No.4 in G major

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
    • EMI.
  • Jacques Ibert

    Valse (Divertissement)

    Orchestra: Orchestre du Conservatoire de Paris. Conductor: Jean Martinon.
    • Ibert: Divertissement / Bizet: Jeux D'Enfants - Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, M.
    • Decca.
  • Gustav Holst

    Calm is the Morn (6 Songs, Op 16)

    Performer: Steuart Bedford. Singer: Susan Gritton.
    • NAXOS.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Tragic Overture

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • Brahms: Symphony No. 1 & Tragic Overture.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 201.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto grosso in D major Op.6`4

    Ensemble: H枚枚r Barock. Director: Dan Laurin.
    • BIS.
  • Arturo M谩rquez

    Danz贸n No 2

    Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • The Vienna Recital.
    • DG.
    • 16.
  • Claude Debussy

    La Plus que lente, arr. for orchestra [orig. piano]

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Debussy: Images, Jeux, La Plus Que Lente.
    • SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY.
    • 7.
  • William Walton

    Quartet in A minor for strings: 4th movement

    Ensemble: Doric String Quartet.
    • Walton: String Quartets.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Sacrae symphoniae (1597): Canzon septimi et octavi toni a 12

    Conductor: Paul McCreesh. Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort.
    • A New Venetian Coronation 1595.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1201.
  • Franz Liszt

    Gnomenreigen (2 Concert Etudes, S 145 No 2)

    Performer: Daniil Trifonov.
    • Transcendental.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 002.
  • Francesco Cilea

    Adriana Lecouvreur, Act 4: "Poveri fiori"

    Singer: Maria Callas. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Tullio Serafin.
    • L'Eternelle.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.
  • Paul Reade

    The Victorian Kitchen Garden (Prelude)

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Michael McHale.
    • The Lyrical Clarinet.
    • Chandos.
    • 13.
  • Trevor Duncan

    Little suite for orchestra: March

    Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Penny.
    • MARCO POLO.
  • Johann Pachelbel

    Suite no.5 in C major [Musikalische Erg枚tzung, 1695]

    Ensemble: Gli Incogniti. Conductor: Amandine Beyer.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Clair Omar Musser

    Etudes Op.6 (no.10 in C major)

    Performer: Evelyn Glennie. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • RCA.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Hymne 脿 la Nuit

    Music Arranger: Joseph Noyon. Choir: La Chapelle de Qu茅bec. Conductor: Bernard Labadie.
    • Atma.
  • Richard Strauss

    Dance of the Seven Veils (Salome)

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.
    • Strauss: Scenes from Elektra Salome.
    • RCA.
    • 4.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Requiem: Pie Jesu

    Performer: Peter Barley. Singer: Richard Eteson. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • EMI.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No 21 in C Major, Op 53 'Waldstein'

    Performer: Stephen Kovacevich.
    • Beethoven: Popular Piano Sonatas.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 7.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Tritsch-Tratsch Polka, Op 214

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Carlos Kleiber.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.
  • Hubert Parry

    Fantasia & Fugue in G major: Fantasia

    Performer: Thomas Trotter.
    • A Celebration.
    • Regent Records.
    • 1.
  • Olivier Messiaen

    Turangalila Symphony: V. Joy of the Blood of the Stars

    Performer: Dominique Kim. Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Kent Nagano.
    • TELDEC.
  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Concertante Quartet No 5 in G major (2nd mvmt, Gratioso)

    Ensemble: Arabella String Quartet.
    • Saint-Georges: 6 Quartetto concertans.
    • Naxos.
    • 502.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Two-Part Invention in A minor, BWV 784

    Performer: Glenn Gould.
    • Bach: Two and Three part inventions: The Glenn Gould Collection.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 19.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Piano Concerto no.1 in E minor Op.11 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Elim Chan.
    • Decca.

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  • Tue 21 May 2024 09:30

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